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Crumpy Andy Zeta Metroid
Posts : 4921 Points : 4933 Join date : 2013-01-15 Age : 32 Location : The South
| Subject: Re: The 6th Annual GNamer Christmas Goodwill Gala~! *a3HeadedMonkey IS A SMELLY BASTART* Thu 27 Dec 2018 - 23:20 | |
| Let's just chuck out some reveals. If you don't want to read them until later we can just spoiler box them. - I was Santa for...:
Nintenduck!
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JayMoyles Galactic Nova
Posts : 15896 Points : 15061 Join date : 2013-01-21 Age : 31 Location : The Shibuya River
| Subject: Re: The 6th Annual GNamer Christmas Goodwill Gala~! *a3HeadedMonkey IS A SMELLY BASTART* Thu 27 Dec 2018 - 23:42 | |
| Yeah, I think it's time for some reveals! I was Secret Santa for... - Spoiler:
Rum! Glad you enjoyed your plush - spotted you liked Bulbasaur in a previous thread, so hoped you'd dig the lil guy. I also took a gamble on hoping you liked rum enough to include it in your username, and I think you've said on here that you're a fan of the Bioshock series, but that was more to complete my really dumb joke. - Baubleadeer wrote:
- I think that's the present I'd most like to receive (besides mine, natch ).
Clearly a success if it's impressed both the gift receiver and an onlooker then!
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Rum Disciple of Greener
Posts : 1492 Points : 1508 Join date : 2013-01-20 Age : 33 Location : Edinburgh
| Subject: Re: The 6th Annual GNamer Christmas Goodwill Gala~! *a3HeadedMonkey IS A SMELLY BASTART* Fri 28 Dec 2018 - 3:27 | |
| I was Secret Santa for... - Spoiler:
Muss! Who hasn't posted in this thread so I am anxious that he hasn't received it. I posted 1st class on the morning of the 19th, though, so I'm hoping that was enough time for it to arrive?!
And also: - Spoiler:
I thought it was you Jay! My flatmate said "it's someone from [insert Jay's hometown here] and I thought "who the jiminy fricket would that be?" and then I saw "RR" on the envelope and I clicked! But yes, I have played and loved every game in the Bioshock trilogy, so you done good. And also, considering we live pretty close to one another, maybe we can be best friends one day. I haven't met any of the Scottish contingent (largely because I have gone AWOL from the forum for many moons at a time, I suspect).
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Balladeer DIVINE LONELINESS
Posts : 26479 Points : 25311 Join date : 2013-01-16 Age : 35 Location : Admintown
| Subject: Re: The 6th Annual GNamer Christmas Goodwill Gala~! *a3HeadedMonkey IS A SMELLY BASTART* Fri 28 Dec 2018 - 9:07 | |
| - I was Secret Santa for...:
...Masofdas! The handwriting isn't great: that's because I held the pen in my fist like a child. Given Riceyboy's run of form, I'll take comparisons to him as a compliment. Hope you enjoyed the gifts sir! Liquid Shadow is at his most comfortable around high-grade military hardware, it touches his heart like no human/hedgehog contact ever can.
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Treesmurf Dry Metal Baby Princess
Posts : 4204 Points : 4206 Join date : 2013-01-17 Age : 34 Location : Manneh
| Subject: Re: The 6th Annual GNamer Christmas Goodwill Gala~! *a3HeadedMonkey IS A SMELLY BASTART* Fri 28 Dec 2018 - 10:24 | |
| I was Secret Santa for... - Spoiler:
The Cappuccino Kid. Hope you get good use out of everything. It was also extremely tough to not to take that Banjo Totaku for myself.
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NintenDUCK Vote Thread
Posts : 938 Points : 957 Join date : 2013-01-18 Age : 27 Location : The floor.
| Subject: Re: The 6th Annual GNamer Christmas Goodwill Gala~! *a3HeadedMonkey IS A SMELLY BASTART* Fri 28 Dec 2018 - 12:21 | |
| I was the secret santa of: - ...of...:
- ...wait for it...:
- Pause for effect...:
Treesmurf!
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The Cappuccino Kid Mani Mani Statue
Posts : 6744 Points : 6907 Join date : 2013-02-25 Age : 105 Location : East of Mombasa
| Subject: Re: The 6th Annual GNamer Christmas Goodwill Gala~! *a3HeadedMonkey IS A SMELLY BASTART* Fri 28 Dec 2018 - 15:55 | |
| I was Secret Santa for... - Spoiler:
Balladeer!
I went down the route of trying to cram in as much stuff for fifteen quid as I could, like I usually do, as folk seem to like that. I always get my recipient a game too - personally, I think that's worthwhile to do on a gaming forum Secret Santa.
Thing was, I was a bit limited with what I could get games-wise as you don't have a PS4, XBox One or a working 3DS, and you'd slagged every other Secret Santa threshold Switch game in various threads. Scribblenauts Showdown then, for the fact it was the only choice, and a few other bits and bobs.
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JayMoyles Galactic Nova
Posts : 15896 Points : 15061 Join date : 2013-01-21 Age : 31 Location : The Shibuya River
| Subject: Re: The 6th Annual GNamer Christmas Goodwill Gala~! *a3HeadedMonkey IS A SMELLY BASTART* Fri 28 Dec 2018 - 20:52 | |
| - Some chat to my Secret Santa receiver:
- Rum Rapture wrote:
I thought it was you Jay! My flatmate said "it's someone from [insert Jay's hometown here] and I thought "who the jiminy fricket would that be?" and then I saw "RR" on the envelope and I clicked! But yes, I have played and loved every game in the Bioshock trilogy, so you done good. And also, considering we live pretty close to one another, maybe we can be best friends one day. I haven't met any of the Scottish contingent (largely because I have gone AWOL from the forum for many moons at a time, I suspect) Yeah, they wouldn't let me send the gift without a returns address, which was naff! And considering that there's only a few Scottish forumites, I figured you'd work it out. We've always talked about having a meetup with the rest of the Scottish forumites at some stage, we've just never got our finger out and actually done it!
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Balladeer DIVINE LONELINESS
Posts : 26479 Points : 25311 Join date : 2013-01-16 Age : 35 Location : Admintown
| Subject: Re: The 6th Annual GNamer Christmas Goodwill Gala~! *a3HeadedMonkey IS A SMELLY BASTART* Sat 29 Dec 2018 - 9:01 | |
| - Santa chat:
Thanks Cappa! - masofdas wrote:
- Yours have to be from Cappa, Balla as I tried to get a Switch game for mine and it was hard to do under £15 without anything else on top...
Mastradamus strikes again! There were a couple of other clues, for instance the fact that I was the first recipient. Makes sense that the organiser would try and be prompt. You've given me some (occasionally blunt) feedback on my gifts in the past Cappa, so I don't think you'll mind me saying this: I'm generally a quality over quantity chap. Getting nice presents is nice, but what I want most of all out of an SS is to think that the gifts have been tailored to me. Without at all tarnishing the rest of the haul, which includes some top stuff (see below), my favourite bit was the note about Showdown being better than XC2. Nonsense, natch; but nobody else on the forum would have got that. That said, I appreciate you describing your thought process, because it shows the thought and personalisation that went into the rest. I know I'm a difficult person to buy games for (bloody borked 3DS...). Will have to find some time to give Showdown ago, when I'm not drowning in Smash... And, as mentioned, Percy Pigs are always quality.
- masofdas wrote:
- ...also are we playing the QUIZ?
I might stick it up in a thread and we can play it as a forum if we're keen? |
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The Cappuccino Kid Mani Mani Statue
Posts : 6744 Points : 6907 Join date : 2013-02-25 Age : 105 Location : East of Mombasa
| Subject: Re: The 6th Annual GNamer Christmas Goodwill Gala~! *a3HeadedMonkey IS A SMELLY BASTART* Sat 29 Dec 2018 - 12:25 | |
| Those gifts are quality though. A sealed Switch game that only came out in March and usually sells for more than £15 on its own, postcards from a 1999 issue of ONM, M&S sweets, trivia cards that are selling for £4 in Sainsbury's, and a Nintendo bottle opener that's currently selling for £5.69 on Amazon. |
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masofdas The Next Miyamoto
Posts : 24029 Points : 24430 Join date : 2013-01-18 Age : 34 Location : VITA Island
| Subject: Re: The 6th Annual GNamer Christmas Goodwill Gala~! *a3HeadedMonkey IS A SMELLY BASTART* Sat 29 Dec 2018 - 18:25 | |
| Going to have agree with Cappa those are some quality gifts as I tried getting a Switch game for who I got and that was dam hard. The handwriting really tricked me with mine Balla, as I know Jay has said in the past his isn't great and like I said Shadow is very much an edgelord also yay quiz. - I was:
You can easily work it out now that I was Jay's, who was easy and hard to get for as from the past 6 years, I know what he likes and doesn't. I was tempted to get Uncharted Nathan Drake Collection but that was most of the budget that I went for something in something he likes eg he likes anime, so AoT drinks thing for his water whilst doing DDPY and so on
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JayMoyles Galactic Nova
Posts : 15896 Points : 15061 Join date : 2013-01-21 Age : 31 Location : The Shibuya River
| Subject: Re: The 6th Annual GNamer Christmas Goodwill Gala~! *a3HeadedMonkey IS A SMELLY BASTART* Sat 29 Dec 2018 - 20:46 | |
| Think we've had enough reveals that I don't need to bother with spoiler boxes any longer! Cheers Mas! I did wonder if it was you with the anime and wrestling stuff there. I think that's exactly what I'll use the water bottle for too as having a glass of water next to my yoga mat could be dangerous when doing the workouts. And it's just as well you didn't end up going for the Nathan Drake Collection as I've already got a copy - and as it's me, it's unplayed, natch - sitting on the shelf. |
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Muss Shiny Shuckle
Posts : 2557 Points : 2575 Join date : 2015-04-03 Location : The 5th Dimension
| Subject: Re: The 6th Annual GNamer Christmas Goodwill Gala~! *a3HeadedMonkey IS A SMELLY BASTART* Sat 29 Dec 2018 - 21:03 | |
| I definitely wasn't Andy's Secret Santa - Rum Rapture wrote:
- I was Secret Santa for...
- Spoiler:
Muss! Who hasn't posted in this thread so I am anxious that he hasn't received it. I posted 1st class on the morning of the 19th, though, so I'm hoping that was enough time for it to arrive?!
And yes, it did arrive in time, but whereas everyone else seems to have gotten personalised gifts, what I got was pretty mince and I didn't want to bring the mood down. - Spoiler:
I got this in the form of an art print, and a keyring like this which came in a nicely wrapped Red Bubble tube.
Here's the beef: you can get prints off Red Bubble from £7, and custom prints off Zazzle for £6, and keyrings like that don't cost more than a pound. There's nothing in the rules that says you have to spend the full £15, and I don't think anyone should be expected to, but the rules do quite clearly suggest gifts should be personalised and I don't think that print has anything to do with me (maybe I'm wrong, maybe it's some reference I've not picked up on?). I know we've never really interacted, but I have made hundreds of forum posts and the elfster site lets you ask questions anonymously. You have had every opportunity to try and come up with something personalised, I think you just chose not to.
But the real kicker is that in lieu of an actual Christmas Card you inserted a lined A4 paper that had a gag about us being close relatives, which was fair enough, but the text also apologised both for not having an actual card and not including a frame because you "didn't have enough time," which is just plain bullshit. You had the same amount of time as everyone else, and places like Wilkos do frames from as little as a quid or two. I genuinely think the reason those items weren't included is because it would have inconvenienced you to package it. So instead I'm expected to spend money on a gift that's not funny and which has nout to do with me; sorry mate, that's pretty fucking tight. Especially considering the tube had tons of real estate for stocking fillers and there's no way that cost £15 including postage. And I worry that you posting it on the penultimate shipping date shows that you just threw any old stuff together.
I want to believe you had good intentions, I respect that your note said you enjoyed the print a lot, and I don't want anyone to feel like I don't want them on this site, which is partly why I've chosen to stay quiet instead of blarting it all out. I don't want you to feel terrible. You are a valued member of the GNamer community. I'm drawing a line in the sand and saying I won't bring this up again elsewhere. I just can't help but feel like your gift giving was pretty much an afterthought.
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The Cappuccino Kid Mani Mani Statue
Posts : 6744 Points : 6907 Join date : 2013-02-25 Age : 105 Location : East of Mombasa
| Subject: Re: The 6th Annual GNamer Christmas Goodwill Gala~! *a3HeadedMonkey IS A SMELLY BASTART* Sun 30 Dec 2018 - 11:01 | |
| That's very disappointing to read that.
I think I've mismanaged this badly, with doing a redraw and byputting too much emphasis on personalised gifts without really helping folk like Muss, Rum or even myself with Balladeer out.
This was just meant to be a bit of fun for fifteen quid. I think if we're doing it again in future, we'd be best to give our Santas some very clear clues. |
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Treesmurf Dry Metal Baby Princess
Posts : 4204 Points : 4206 Join date : 2013-01-17 Age : 34 Location : Manneh
| Subject: Re: The 6th Annual GNamer Christmas Goodwill Gala~! *a3HeadedMonkey IS A SMELLY BASTART* Sun 30 Dec 2018 - 11:37 | |
| - masofdas wrote:
- Going to have agree with Cappa those are some quality gifts as I tried getting a Switch game for who I got and that was dam hard.
This is true, the only game within that range that Cappa had never had was Chicken Range and as funny as I'm sure that would have been I couldn't willingly do that to another human. Sent from Topic'it App |
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The Cappuccino Kid Mani Mani Statue
Posts : 6744 Points : 6907 Join date : 2013-02-25 Age : 105 Location : East of Mombasa
| Subject: Re: The 6th Annual GNamer Christmas Goodwill Gala~! *a3HeadedMonkey IS A SMELLY BASTART* Sun 30 Dec 2018 - 11:47 | |
| I had to get Scribblenauts from France for it to have any chance of fitting the budget. I thought it would be no hassle as the Switch is region-free. But imagine how stupid I felt when I realised, only once I'd got it, that it would all be in French. That's Scribblenauts, a word game, based entirely on your mastery of words, all in another language. 😅
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Treesmurf Dry Metal Baby Princess
Posts : 4204 Points : 4206 Join date : 2013-01-17 Age : 34 Location : Manneh
| Subject: Re: The 6th Annual GNamer Christmas Goodwill Gala~! *a3HeadedMonkey IS A SMELLY BASTART* Sun 30 Dec 2018 - 11:56 | |
| I like the idea of that, kinda like a challenge mode although if ever there were a forumite who spoke French it'd be Balladeer.
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masofdas The Next Miyamoto
Posts : 24029 Points : 24430 Join date : 2013-01-18 Age : 34 Location : VITA Island
| Subject: Re: The 6th Annual GNamer Christmas Goodwill Gala~! *a3HeadedMonkey IS A SMELLY BASTART* Sun 30 Dec 2018 - 13:51 | |
| - The Cappuccino Kid wrote:
- That's very disappointing to read that.
I think I've mismanaged this badly, with doing a redraw and byputting too much emphasis on personalised gifts without really helping folk like Muss, Rum or even myself with Balladeer out.
This was just meant to be a bit of fun for fifteen quid. I think if we're doing it again in future, we'd be best to give our Santas some very clear clues. You've done nothing different to what Drunka would have done or what has been in the past 5 years, unfortunately some bad gift giving this time (even though I think Balla had the second best gift after Jay). |
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Crumpy Andy Zeta Metroid
Posts : 4921 Points : 4933 Join date : 2013-01-15 Age : 32 Location : The South
| Subject: Re: The 6th Annual GNamer Christmas Goodwill Gala~! *a3HeadedMonkey IS A SMELLY BASTART* Sun 30 Dec 2018 - 13:53 | |
| I think you're all a disgrace and this farce of a forum should come to an end. None of you are welcome here, it should just be me and Epson Printer Error. |
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The_Jaster Din
Posts : 11975 Points : 12067 Join date : 2013-01-15 Age : 40 Location : Underground Corpse Pile.
| Subject: Re: The 6th Annual GNamer Christmas Goodwill Gala~! *a3HeadedMonkey IS A SMELLY BASTART* Sun 30 Dec 2018 - 13:57 | |
| Epson printer error is a fanny! |
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JayMoyles Galactic Nova
Posts : 15896 Points : 15061 Join date : 2013-01-21 Age : 31 Location : The Shibuya River
| Subject: Re: The 6th Annual GNamer Christmas Goodwill Gala~! *a3HeadedMonkey IS A SMELLY BASTART* Sun 30 Dec 2018 - 20:15 | |
| - The Cappuccino Kid wrote:
I think I've mismanaged this badly, with doing a redraw and byputting too much emphasis on personalised gifts without really helping folk like Muss, Rum or even myself with Balladeer out.
You've done nothing wrong at all Cappa - Secret Santa gifts can always be hit or miss, it's just how they go sometimes... nothing to do with how it's organised! Still, nobody has received a gift as bad as one that a fella in my team at work received one year - somebody gave him a child's Peppa Pig watch. There was no in-joke or context behind it. I think the person who gave it found it in a drawer and thought it'd be funny. |
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Buskalilly Galactic Nova
Posts : 15085 Points : 15263 Join date : 2013-02-25 Age : 34 Location : Nagano
| Subject: Re: The 6th Annual GNamer Christmas Goodwill Gala~! *a3HeadedMonkey IS A SMELLY BASTART* Sun 30 Dec 2018 - 23:34 | |
| - The Cappuccino Kid wrote:
I think I've mismanaged this badly, with doing a redraw and byputting too much emphasis on personalised gifts without really helping folk like Muss, Rum or even myself with Balladeer out. Yep, you've fucked it. I knew this would happen without me around. |
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Balladeer DIVINE LONELINESS
Posts : 26479 Points : 25311 Join date : 2013-01-16 Age : 35 Location : Admintown
| Subject: Re: The 6th Annual GNamer Christmas Goodwill Gala~! *a3HeadedMonkey IS A SMELLY BASTART* Mon 31 Dec 2018 - 10:18 | |
| - The Cappuccino Kid wrote:
- That's very disappointing to read that.
I think I've mismanaged this badly, with doing a redraw and byputting too much emphasis on personalised gifts without really helping folk like Muss, Rum or even myself with Balladeer out.
This was just meant to be a bit of fun for fifteen quid. I think if we're doing it again in future, we'd be best to give our Santas some very clear clues. You absolutely haven't done this. I agree with Mas and Jay: Secret Santas aren't always going to be barnstormers, and that's no fault of the host. Neither of us ended up blaming Drunka when I got you Fallout and PS4 basketball. And as Mas says, my gift was pretty belting all told - not to mention the effort involved in hunting down the only game that'd fit in the package. I think maybe the opportunity to ask anonymous questions through Elfster is something that could be taken advantage of next year. I didn't know it existed. Otherwise, you've done a bang-up job. Cheers for organising boss! - The Cappuccino Kid wrote:
- I had to get Scribblenauts from France for it to have any chance of fitting the budget. I thought it would be no hassle as the Switch is region-free. But imagine how stupid I felt when I realised, only once I'd got it, that it would all be in French. That's Scribblenauts, a word game, based entirely on your mastery of words, all in another language. 😅
- Treesmurf wrote:
- I like the idea of that, kinda like a challenge mode although if ever there were a forumite who spoke French it'd be Balladeer.
T'est très gentil Arbreschtoumpf! (NB: wrote this before Googling the translation, and was only one letter off! Pretty chuffed.) I agree actually, think I'll try playing it in French first and see how I get on. - JayMoyles wrote:
- Still, nobody has received a gift as bad as one that a fella in my team at work received one year - somebody gave him a child's Peppa Pig watch. There was no in-joke or context behind it. I think the person who gave it found it in a drawer and thought it'd be funny.
Let this put the entire thread into context. - The_Jaster wrote:
- Epson printer error is a fanny!
Jaster with a late Post of the Year contender! |
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Rum Disciple of Greener
Posts : 1492 Points : 1508 Join date : 2013-01-20 Age : 33 Location : Edinburgh
| Subject: Re: The 6th Annual GNamer Christmas Goodwill Gala~! *a3HeadedMonkey IS A SMELLY BASTART* Wed 2 Jan 2019 - 21:46 | |
| - Muss wrote:
- And yes, it did arrive in time, but whereas everyone else seems to have gotten personalised gifts, what I got was pretty mince and I didn't want to bring the mood down.
- Spoiler:
I got this in the form of an art print, and a keyring like this which came in a nicely wrapped Red Bubble tube.
Here's the beef: you can get prints off Red Bubble from £7, and custom prints off Zazzle for £6, and keyrings like that don't cost more than a pound. There's nothing in the rules that says you have to spend the full £15, and I don't think anyone should be expected to, but the rules do quite clearly suggest gifts should be personalised and I don't think that print has anything to do with me (maybe I'm wrong, maybe it's some reference I've not picked up on?). I know we've never really interacted, but I have made hundreds of forum posts and the elfster site lets you ask questions anonymously. You have had every opportunity to try and come up with something personalised, I think you just chose not to.
But the real kicker is that in lieu of an actual Christmas Card you inserted a lined A4 paper that had a gag about us being close relatives, which was fair enough, but the text also apologised both for not having an actual card and not including a frame because you "didn't have enough time," which is just plain bullshit. You had the same amount of time as everyone else, and places like Wilkos do frames from as little as a quid or two. I genuinely think the reason those items weren't included is because it would have inconvenienced you to package it. So instead I'm expected to spend money on a gift that's not funny and which has nout to do with me; sorry mate, that's pretty fucking tight. Especially considering the tube had tons of real estate for stocking fillers and there's no way that cost £15 including postage. And I worry that you posting it on the penultimate shipping date shows that you just threw any old stuff together.
I want to believe you had good intentions, I respect that your note said you enjoyed the print a lot, and I don't want anyone to feel like I don't want them on this site, which is partly why I've chosen to stay quiet instead of blarting it all out. I don't want you to feel terrible. You are a valued member of the GNamer community. I'm drawing a line in the sand and saying I won't bring this up again elsewhere. I just can't help but feel like your gift giving was pretty much an afterthought.
Ok, first of all, apologies for what was clearly a misfire in terms of gift-giving. The idea behind the print was because I had read your chats with Drunka and Balla about Pokemon GSC in a thread about RPGs and the connection in my head was that comic - because it was one of my favourite comics and I thought it would resonate. I thought writing a letter as if we were longstanding friends would be funny in an ironic kind of way, but clearly not. I can see why you're annoyed. I can see that it wasn't as good as other forumites'. I'm not sure I entirely buy the last paragraph in that you didn't *have* to post this in the thread and instead could have contacted me personally - it comes across as deliberately trying to make me feel bad (which you did, if it's any consolation). But the damage is done, I won't give you excuses or shipping receipts - I apologise, and hope we can put it behind us, and that you come to believe that I'm not actually all bad, and that my intentions *were* genuine and I'm really not a cunt. (I don't know if you were around for a3headedmonkey.) |
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JayMoyles Galactic Nova
Posts : 15896 Points : 15061 Join date : 2013-01-21 Age : 31 Location : The Shibuya River
| Subject: Re: The 6th Annual GNamer Christmas Goodwill Gala~! *a3HeadedMonkey IS A SMELLY BASTART* Wed 2 Jan 2019 - 22:26 | |
| - Rum Rapture wrote:
- (I don't know if you were around for a3headedmonkey.)
I think I blocked him on Facebook after he created a several hundred long comment chain arguing with my mates from school about BODMAS and PEMDAS and getting genuinely irate with people he's never spoken to before. Says it all, really. |
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